The government's promises of returning land to black South Africans taken during apartheid are under the spotlight during Elections2019, land experts said.
Johannesburg - The government's promises of returning land to black South Africans taken during apartheid are under the spotlight during national elections this Wednesday, land experts said.
"It is not merely a rural farming issue anymore. It is also an urban housing issue, and there is a lot of mobilisation around this demand for land," Hall said. "There has been a dramatic spike in organised land occupation since early 2018 around the country. This shows that many people are giving up on waiting for official processes," said Hall.S'bu Zikode, the president of Abahlali baseMjondolo a shack-dwellers movement fighting for housing rights in South African townships, has been one of the voices leading these occupations.
But AbM is also concerned that land redistribution will simply involve taking land from white elites and giving it to black elites. "I believe that many concerns around expropriation are ill-informed, and are a reaction to poor political messaging around what is being planned," said Hall.
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